Grex Disabilities Conference Item 8

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Books about disability

Jan 28 05:35 UTC 1995

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mcmud

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Jan 28 05:46 UTC 1995

My favorite four titles: A Whole New Life (reynolds Price);
My Well-Balanced Life on One Leg (Al Ka (oops) Capp);
Favorite Son (Lew Puller); Aftermath (Fred Downs). Wars
create a lot of amputees, and Puller's and Downs' books
deal with wartime amputation and the life that follows.
Capp lost his leg when he was run over by a trolley. He
lost it as a boy. Interestingly, he wrote/drew a cartoon
titled Al Capp by *Li'l Abner* that dealt with living
with an amputation. I believe it was distributed to vet
amputees by the VA. Reynolds Price's book is good reading
for anyone, disabled or not.

raywms

response 2 of 2:

Feb 13 01:12 UTC 1995

One of the most insightful books on Deafness is SEEING VOICES by Oliver
Sacks  ("The Man who mistook his Wife for a Hat" is another of his books).
He is a neurologist and also is a Hearing person so I was naturally surprised 
when I read his book.  It is so insightful!

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